Happiness Quotes - Page 4

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.